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Minority Report: iPhone, Android and the world in your pocket
Comment Just wait until hundreds of developers start peddling their wares for the device. More significantly for the immediate future of the mobile is the arrival of the new entrants. Yet it was an event that could make 2008 a significant milestone in the... [23 Apr 2008]
Where's the real web 2.0?
Comment Much of the ensuing collaboration is serial, with blog threads and social forums looking like the newsgroups of the 1990s and bulletin boards of an earlier generation - hardly immediate or interactive. [18 Oct 2007]
Dear silicon.com... wi-fi CCTV, BBC iPlayer, skills shortage, robots...
Comment Les Blunden, Winchester sigh* here we go again, more arguements for offshoring on the way stop looking for exact matches and be prepared to train your staff be prepared to hire university leavers and teach them the interpersonal skills you think... [13 Sep 2007]
The SME hype cycle
Comment Meanwhile, the rest of us look on thinking 'here we go again', knowing that it will all blow over as most of the pretenders discover that working the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) space is too much of a long-term play to fit with the cut... [25 Jul 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Viagra for the brain
Comment Yep, just pop a pill to see an immediate improvement in IQ and memory capacity. Seems to me that if you start on this tack you have no option but to continue. Here we are at the start of the 21st century, generating more information and data than... [20 Jun 2006]
Leader: NHS IT - now the real work begins
Leader This is no easy task when they are rightly more focused on caring for patients, rather than worrying about the rollout of IT systems, especially if they can't see the immediate benefit. Which means the IT modernisation project will be under... [19 Jan 2006]
Leader: When security firms run out of acquisition targets
Leader But it's a route many firms will soon have to start embracing. Jolly was happy to have jumped on the bandwagon through acquisition and expressed an opinion that many of his company's rivals won't be so lucky or enjoy such an immediate route to market. [07 Mar 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: The large and small of IT
Comment Ten years ago this was all extremely problematic because the fundamental cost of the technology meant the potential return on investment for the small corporation was offset by the immediate risk. During the last five years in particular, I have... [03 Feb 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Design software before you build it
Comment The best designs solve immediate problems, but are also flexible and robust enough to be adapted for the inevitable future changes. That is all to the good, until the design principles for the system start to be seen as obstacles. [04 May 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Polish up your skills
Comment But as we start to feel vulnerable to competition from countries such as India and China, we wonder what it is that puts us in this privileged position. Few employers plan far ahead, and these days they take no responsibility for the careers of... [09 Dec 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: The oil crisis of 2003
Comment The predictions for the discovery of new oil reserves - their size, availability and economic viability - indicate global production will peak during 2003 and then start to decline around 2005. Ruling out some super volcano, massive meteor impact... [09 Jan 2003]
The Director's Cut: Your priceless helpdesk
Comment The immediate helpdesk management must be committed, imaginative and - wait for it - visible. As they say when one asks for directions in Somerset: "Well, I wouldn't start from here. Many IT directors and teams still cite their helpdesks as being... [23 Oct 2002]
The Ovum View: 3G in Malaysia
Comment The allocation of spectrum says as much about the government's views on industry structure as it does about the immediate prospects for mobile multimedia. It's also unlikely anything will happen to the remaining potential block of 3G spectrum until... [18 Sep 2002]
Devil's Advocate: Security - it's so simple
Comment Their immediate response is likely to be despair at the difficulty of taking action. Because security has not been built in from the start, we are left with solutions that are really only patches. This week, Martin Brampton, director at consultancy... [05 Feb 2002]
The Ovum View: The rumble in the wireless applications jungle
Comment By coming together in this way, these two communities are also squeezing the market opportunities historically prospected by a number of small start-up vendors - companies like 724 Solutions, Aether Software, AlterEgo Networks, Brience... [15 Jan 2002]
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